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EDITORIAL
Wednesday, February 21, v 1962
RE-EVALUATION
New IWA Faces Problems
Re-evaluation. '
Last week, the Independent- Women's
Association (IWA) released its program
of re-evaluation. Within the next few
weeks, Panhellenic will begin a program
of evaluation. The Interfraternity Coun
cil (IFC) has been in a state of re
evaluation during the pas year. Build
ers is trying to re-program.
It seems that the thing to do is develop
and ,re-devehp the campus organizations
in an attempt to counteract the current
cry of apathy on the part of the student
body.
It was sort of an "inspirational-depression'
to talk with Norma Countryman,
chairman of the IWA constitutional com
mittee, earlier in the week. She is ex
tremely idealistic and enthusiastic about
the new IWA and its future programs.
In earlier conversations she stated that
the program of IWA must "provide op
portunities through which women may
contribute to the growth and development
tof their university."
To do this, she hopes the committees
can be revitalized and that more than
the present "approximate 100" girls in
terested in IWA will increase to a better
percentage of the 1,500 or so member
ship. But there are problems that must be
overcome. Miss Countryman points out
that IWA, a major organization, does
not have an actual headquarters. That
the files are scattered all over and the
librarian keeps her files under her bed.
There appeared, up to now, a problem
of communication and weak presidents.
Primary, however, is the problem of
that nasty and too-often used word,
Apathy. She indicated that the independ
ent women for the most part are happy
to be "hiding in the dorm" and not
participate in IWA or any other campus
activity.
This points to a problem of most or
ganizations on campus. The problem of
getting students interested in their own
University through organizations like IWA.
Another problem that can be pointed..
to is that of getting Lincoln Independ
ents into their organization. IWA rep
resents all independent women. Not lust
those in the dorms. However, Unicorn,
a co-educational group, is supported by
independent Lincoln -women. There is an
overlapping; one which could and pos
sible has been a contributor to the unef
fectual activity of both groups.
Another factor is the men's groups.
There is no single group of, "all male
independents". The Residence Associa
tion for Men (RAM) speaks for the in
dependent male in the dorm while Uni
corn represents the male not in the dorm.
It seems that a more logical organ
izational pattern would be two organiza
tions Independent Men and Independ
ent Women. Two groups which could
work together and accomilish the same
goals together service to and a knowl
edge of their University.
Another important feature of IWA, both
past and present, is its selection of the
president. She is elected at the time of
All Women's elections by a vote of all
the Independent girls on campus.
This is a feature that Panhellenic
should look at and do some serious
thinking. It appears ridiculous to select
a president of a major organization on
campus, one that affects 1,200 Greek
women, on a rotation system. What if
that house does not have the interest in
Panhellenic that it should? What if the
representative is void of leadership quali
ties? Does she deserve to serve as presi
dent merely because it is her houses'
turn?
While we do not advocate that all lead
ers should be elected from all df the
membership of an organization, such as
IWA, we do feel that it should be by a
democratic vote of the representatives
or delegates, at the least.
Editor's note: In Monday's Nebraskan, the
column: Therefore D 1 ? was written
by Jagit Singh, staff columnist. The by
line was erroneously left off the story.
ADVISE AND CONSENT
Story of Political Struggle
By WILLIAM KEMPER
, If you are going to review books, the
man with "editor" engraved on his fore
head said, why don't you review the
number one best seller, FRANNY AND
ZOOEY, J. D. Sallinger's third novel
which has been the nation's most popu
lar since it first appeared.
i promise that next week, therefore,
we will devote this space to the latest
Sallinger effort. But first, we are going
to-do something . that we want to do.
Take that, Ferg.
What we want to do is talk about
ADVISE AND CONSENT, by Allan
Drury. Although this book is no longer
a best seller, there is a good deal of
interest in it because of Otto Premin
ger's forthcoming movie adaption.
If Mr. Preminger can make a good
movie of this modern political drama,
he if tee genius he says he is. The
book sprawls through more than 600
pages, 14 msfjor characters, three love
stories, a suicide, the White House, the
U.S. Supreme Court and the reader's
patience.
But most of all, it sprawls through the
United States Senate, which must give
its advise and consent to the appoint
ment of the most controversial Secretary
of State in American history or shatter
the foreign policy of the nation.
The choice is made harder still be
cause the nominee is a very popular,
urban, intellectual and eloquent gentle
man,' a very close personal friend of a
very popular president, whose large ma
jority in Congress can be used to dis
cipline those who oppose Mm.
The reason for the existence of any
opposition is the rather peculiar attitude
of the nominee toward our missile toting
neighbors across the Bering Strait.
On the other hand, the nominee is a
vanguard liberal which calls forth
all their passionately illogical and intol
erant disciples in his behalf. . And, of
course, the worst of the worms from
the Mother side of the house emerge
from the woodwork with swastikas flap
ping and crosses ablaze.
Mr. Drury's point is obvious by the
200th page. Parties be damned, this man
has got to be beaten. He is dangerous
because he is weak and the president
nominee would "rather crawl on his bel
ly to Moscow" than endure a contest
of any kind between two hostile pow
ers. The president can't decide whether
to crawl or fight and figures if he can
stall the decision long enough, the trou
. ble will all go away and he can return
to his favorite game, which is politics.
So all Mr. Drury has to do is have
the vote and settle the thing. But he has
introduced too many characters, there
are too many loose ends, too many sub
plots. The tight ball of yarn has become
unraveled and Mr. Drury spends more
time and ink wrapping it np than the
New York Times.
In a way that's politics. Solutions in
national affairs are never complete or
easy. They can never be found in the
pat "nos" of the far right or the hand
wringing of the soft left They can
never be found in the reality of the pres
ent by men' who have a firm grip on
their conscience and their courage.
Now that sounds just fine, but how do
you get that on celluloid and at the same
time develop 14 major characters played
by such notable, and tempermental hams
as Henry -Fonda, as the nominee, and
Charles Laughton, as Senator Seabright
Cooley, opposition leader?
Good luck, Otto.
iconoclast
FILE 13
By TOM KOTOI C
I In this week of interna-
I tional brotherhood, what
could be more appropri-
1 ate than the challenge
I hurled at us as Univer-
i sity students and faculty
in People-to-People.
i Today, when Western
democracy and freedom
1 are pitted against Com-
1 munist totalitarianism and
lies, we as American stu-
dents can no longer con-
done apathy, prejudice
and ignorance toward our
1 brothers over the world,
i We must stand together
in mutual understanding
I 'and trust of each other
I in repelling the Commun-
j ist menace.
1 Yet how can we stand
I together as nations when
we stand apart as individ-
i uals. When nine of ten
international students
studying in our colleges
I return to their homelands
. "dissatisfied" with their
experience in the U.S.,
"I we are failing,
i Eighty per cent of the
s 70,000 international stu-
dents who return to their
I homelands will be leaders
s there, and nine of ten are
I "dissatisfied."
Perhaps it is common
I sense to realize that it is
1 easier to settle differences
among friends than
among enemies.
Yet one of our poten-
1 tial "friends," Premier
1 Kwame Nkrumah of
I Ghana attended the Uni
versity of Pennsylvan
ia. Today, he is the out
spoken anti-A m e r i c a n
leader of his country.
Yet, if he had attended
the University of Nebras
ka instead of Pennsylvan
ia, would his experiences
have been "satisfying."
Yes, how many Nebraska
students would have
made the effort to know
and understand Nkrumah
and his land, to learn
about the problems he
faced in Ghana, to dis
cuss the ambitions for his
nations, to learn who he
considered as allies and
why?
How many of us? We
can answer that question.
How many international
friends do you have now,
do I have? (One interna
tional student here admit
ted that he had been at
the University for one
year, and as yet had no
American friend.)
Remember, a friend is
not someone you simply
say "Hi" to on the way to
class, but a brother whom
you understand and trust,
whom you can sit with
over coffee and discuss
your hopes and doubts,
whom you are proud to
invite over to your house
or hall for dinner. A friend
is one whom you can take
criticism from and one
who will accept criticism
from you, who is frank
(Continued on p. 3)
In the interest of student
body unity, we shall at
tempt today to resolve un
equivocally a question
which has, at one time
or another, occurred to all
of us: "Is Stuckey real?"
Thee are two predomin
ant schools of thought ex-1
tant concerning this sub
ject1 and it shall be our
purpose to consolidate
them into one highly uni
fied and militant group,
the aim of which will be
to ferret out and emas-'
culate any and all dissent
ers on this vital question.
"Stuckey," for the edi
fication of the less liter
ate, (or perhaps mora dis
cerning) is the hy-line giv
en to a column which ap
pears at erratic intervals
in this publication. We re
fer to it as a by-line ra
ther than a name; cer
tainly no word so totally
absurd and unlikely could
ever be a form of appela
tion for any person or
thing, regardless of how
invidious that person or
thing may be. No down
trodden people, in their
darkest hous, were ever
referred to by any word
so opprobrious as "Stuck
ey". It is manifest that such
a word could not be the
coinage of the most fe
vered mind; not even Dr.
Seuss at his lowest would
dare to manufacture such
a word. It is true that
Robert Welch has come
up with "Comsymp" but
that is hardly comparable.
We must, therefore, con
clude that "Stuckey" is a
typographical error and a
most lamentable one at
that, but certainly noth
ing else. If it were, it
could not have existed this
long in a civilized com
munity. Turning now to the "col
umn which is allegedly
written by the supposi
tious "Stuckey", we must
perforce assume that this
incoherent concatenation
of puerile, Shumanesque,
recremental drivel is a
purposive attempt at hu
mor. The most inchoate of
reasonable beings could
not dismiss this recurrent
phenomenon as sheer edi
torial oversight. Not even
the most cretinous of
proofreaders,' suffer
ing from unmitigated my
opia, could consistently
. overlook this low blow to
by george alien
journalism and literature.
Therefore the column
must be intentional.
Let us now refer our
selves to that philosophy
s t u d e n t s' delight, Des
cartes. It was this august
gentleman who proved his
existence by application of
that now well known
phrase, "I think", there
fore, I am." Now, it is
obvious that "Stuckey"
(real name or names un
known) does not think. On
the very face of it, this
is a palpable truth. No
thinking being, however
preverse and demented,
could lend himself to such
a blatant hoax upon the
English language. The
proposition is inconceiv
able. Therefore, since he,
she, they, or it, does not
think, application of the
Descartian truth leaves us
with the only logical con
clusion. He, she, they, or
it does not exist.
i In answer to the few
skeptics who remain un
convinced by this highly
laudable chain of logic, we
shall offer one further
proof. If such a person
' as "Stuckey" did, at any
time exist and did merci
lessly foist such an inex
cusable, vitiating, odius
cicatrix upon the face of
the reading public, the
same reading public
would, with consummate
speed, rend him asunder
and banish the pieces to'
the Chemistry Depart
ment where they could be
further studied and even
tually extinguished. The
column continues to ap
pear, however, so we can
logically assume, that
"Stuckey" is not now and
never was real.
In summation, we can
( only offer our heartfelt
commiseration to those
others who have suffered
so long and so patiently
this common abberation.
Let us take it for a mass
nightmare and dismiss it
as such. By the same line
of faultless reasoning we
tcan similarly dismiss My
ron Papadakis. In fact,
we have already done so.
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THE 4-H CLUB will meet
7 p.m. tomorrow instead of
tonight as earlier scheduled.
Three $100 scholarships do
nated will be awarded, and
members will vote on fresh
men to determine Frisby
Scholarship recipients.
TEAUIIERS'C OLLEGE
students are urged to attend
the UNSEA meeting tonight
at 7 in 332 Union. The pro
gram will be a panel discus
sion on the SEA and teach
ers' unions.
ALL SOPHOMORES and
transfer students in Teachers
College who have not com
pleted the required health ex
amination are asked to report
to 103 Teachers College, for
a permit card. It is impor
tant that this be done at an
early date in order to avoid
a last minute rush at the
Student Health Center. The
examinations must be com
pleted before May 1.
SEMPER FI, the Univer
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United States Marine Corps,
will hold its last organiza
tional meeting tomorrow at
7 n.m. in 318 Union. The fea
tured program is highlighted
Dy ur. it. u. Sloan, associ
ate professor of political sci
ence. The topic is one of cur
rent interest: "The Recent
Congressional Investigations
of Military Speeches." A
short question and answer pe
riod will follow the informal
address by Dr. Sloan. All
University students are in
vited to attend the meeting.
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their slate by unanimous
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Sandra Keriakedes; corres
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will organize the Mu Phi!
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